PHOTOS: NSCDC EBONYI COMMAND SHOWCASES TACTICAL EXCELLENCE.

NSCDC EBONYI STATE COMMAND WAS NOT LEFT BEHIND IN OBSERVING THIS YEAR'S INTERNATIONAL CIVIL DEFENCE ORGANIZATION DAY WITH SERIES OF IMPACTFUL EVENTS WITH THE THEME " CIVIL DEFENCE; GUARANTEE OF SECURITY FOR THE POPULATION "

THE CELEBRATION UNDERSCORED THE NSCDC'S PIVOTAL ROLE IN SAFEGUARDING CITIZEN'S AND PROMOTING PUBLIC SAFETY.

IT WAS A TOTAL SHOW OF SYNERGY IN DISPLAY AS ALL THE SISTER SECURITY SERVICES IN THE STATE SHOWED A FIRM SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMMAND AS WITNESSES TO THIS YEAR'S EVENT.

HIS EXCELLENCY, THE GOVERNOR OF EBONYI STATE RT. HON PRINCE BUILDR FRANCIS OGBONNA NWIFURU WAS ABLY REPRESENTED BY THE HON. COMMISSIONER FOR INTERNAL SECURITY CHIEF ETTA UKA WHO ON ARRIVAL COMMISSIONED THE BRAND NEW AHMED ABUBAKAR AUDI TRAINING GARDEN BUILT BY THE DOGGED COMMANDANT OF EBONYI STATE, CC FRANCIS CHKA NNADI.

CC. FRANCIS NNADI WELCOMED HIS GUESTS WARMLY IN HIS OPENING REMARKS GIVING A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CORPS TO ITS PRESENT STATUS. HE UNDERSCORED THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ICDO YEARLY CELEBRATION AND CALLED FOR AN INCREASE IN COLLABORATION AND COOPERATION AMONGST STAKEHOLDERS FOR A SAFER SOCIETY.

A LECTURE ON THE THEME OF THIS YEAR'S ICDO CELEBRATION , " CIVIL DEFENCE: GUARANTEE OF SECURITY FOR THE POPULATION WAS INTELLIGENTLY DELIVERED BY DCC CELESTINE UKEOMA.

THE ACG ZONE 13, AWKA WAS ABLY REPRESENTED BY CC EDWIN UGWUJA WHO COMMENDED THE COMMANDANT'S EFFORTS IN CHANGING THE NARRATIVE IN THE STATE AND PROMISED TO GIVE HIM FULL SUPPORT FROM THE ZONE.

THE GOVERNOR OF EBONYI STATE, RT. HON. PRINCE FRANCIS OGBONNA NWIFURU ABLY REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR INTERNAL SECURITY, HON. ETTA UKA UDE IN HIS SPEECH COMMENDED THE EFFORTS OF THE STATE COMMANDANT IN THE REMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION OF THE COMMAND WITHIN JUST A 100 DAYS IN OFFICE. HE APPLAUDED CC NNADI FOR ORGANIZING THE EVENT AND STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTINOUS TRAINING AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN SECURITY AGENCIES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

TODAY'S DOUBLE EVENT OF THE 2025 ICDO DAY CELEBRATION AND THE MARKING OF THE STATE COMMANDANT'S 100 DAYS IN OFFICE WAS INDEED LOUD AS DIGNITARIES WERE ALL AMAZED WHEN THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE UNCOMMON COMMANDANT CC FRANCIS NNADI WAS READ OUT.

NOTABLE AMONGST THESE ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE;
*COMPLETE OVERHAUL AND FURNISHING OF THE STATE COMMANDANTS OFFICE
*BUILDING OF A CHAPEL FOR THE COMMAND
*BUILDING OF THE AHMED ABUBAKAR AUDI TRAINING GARDEN
*BUILDING OF A DIGITAL SAFE SCHOOLS RESPONSE CENTRE
*BUILDING OF A CRECHE
*INSTALLATION OF SOLAR POWERED LIGHT ROUND THE COMMAND
*INSTALLATION OF CCTV CAMERAS IN THE COMMAND
*REPAINTING OF THE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS
*SENIOR OFFICIERS MESS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
INSTALLATION OF A QUICK RESPONSE CONTROL CENTER AMONGST OTHERS.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE EVENT WAS A STUNNING EXHIBITION DISPLAY BY THE TACTICAL TEAMS WHICH DEMONSTRATED THEIR SKILLS AND TALENT IN DRILLS, STRIPPLING AND ASSEMBLING OF RIFLES AND CROSSING OF OBSTACLES.

THE GALLANT TACTICAL DISPLAY HIGHLIGHTED THE COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT THAT DRIVES THE STATE"S EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS INITIATIVES.

AT COMMISSIONING OF MODEL SCHOOL IN ORON, GOV ENO CHARGES SCHOOL HEADS ON MAINTENANCE CULTURE

... directs head teachers to live in school

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has charged heads of schools and other institutions to ensure preservation of government infrastructures within their custody and to ensure that the intended benefits of government investments in the sector are delivered to the targeted beneficiaries.

He also tasked headmasters and headmistresses of model primary schools built across the State to utilize the live-in facilities to enhance their care for the pupils, and protection of the facilities in line with the aspirations of his administration's ARISE Agenda.

Speaking at the commissioning ceremony of the Model Primary School, Uko-Oyukim in Oron Local Government Area, Governor Eno said a special education monitoring team was about to be activated to monitor the model schools, warning that any headteacher found not living on campus or whose school facilities are not well managed would be replaced.

He, therefore, tasked the Akwa Ibom State Infrastructure & Assets Management and Maintenance Agency to step up their vigilance over the educational facilities, adding that he was willing to bring to bear his private business experience as a hotelier, where he would work round the clock to ensure every guest enjoys utmost comfort, to make Akwa Ibom children receive the best from government investment in the education sector.

"Very soon, we are setting up education monitoring teams, and the team will help us ensure that all of these facilities are intact. They will monitor all these schools we are opening, from the washroom to the classrooms, all the facilities, the curriculum and of the work they are doing.

"The Headmasters or Headmistresses will also ensure that non of these facilities are destroyed. We must continue to maintain the standard. I am setting up a Governor's Monitoring team, but they will work with the Honourable Commissioners to ensure that they give us the right information.

"If we come to your school, particularly our schools that are remodelled, and we find out that the standards are dropping, we will change the head Master or Mistress immediately. If we come to the school and discover that you are not living on the school compound, we will send you back somewhere else.

"We can not use your money to put this edifice in place, only for it to go down in few months," the Governor stated.

Speaking on behalf of Oron stakeholders, the Deputy Governor, Senator Akon Eyakenyi, described the emergence of Governor Umo Eno as God's blessing to Akwa Ibom State and particularly thanked the Governor for accepting to be used to extend God's love to Oron people.

According to Senator Eyakenyi, Governor Umo Eno's value for education which fueled his drive to pursue and obtain a PhD has been demonstrated in his identification of primary education as being fundamentally imperative and therefore investing in giving Akwa Ibom children a good start up.

The Commissioner for Education, Professor Ubong Umoh, presenting an overview of the project, commended Governor Umo Eno's model primary school initiative, maintaining that such underscores his administration's dedication to transforming the educational landscape thereby fostering academic excellence and social development.

He said the Uko-Oyukim Model Primary School, designed to accommodate 495 pupils in 19 fully furnished classrooms on a 25:1 pupils to teacher ratio, was fully equipped with library, early childcare development facilities, solar-powered ICT laboratory, modern sick bay, spacious auditorium, dedicated staff quarters, seperate gender-specific sanitary facilities, with comprehensive human kinetic facilities that enhances education and sports development.

Pupils of the school, little Miss Happiness Antai and Master Godwin Asuquo, conveyed the feelings of the school community through a special address and a ballad which expressed the gratitude of the pupils, teachers and their parents to the Governor for the kind gesture he has extended to them through the state-of-the-art facilities.

Media Unit
Government House, Uyo
12/3/25

GOV ENO BEGINS TOWN HALL MEETINGS WITH DISBURSEMENT OF N5.1 BILLION BUSINESS GRANTS

...reaffirms commitment to enhance MSMEs, rural development

833 Akwa Ibom indigenes from Abak-Etim Ekpo-Ika Federal Constituency have received their part of the N5.1 billion ARISE Grant ermarked for farmers, traders, craftmen equipment support and ARISE MSME support schemes by Governor Umo Eno.

The breakdown of the disbursement include N111 million to 178 crop, fish and livestock farmers, N176 million to 442 traders of various categories, N30 million to six Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises operators and equipment support running into hundreds of millions to 198 craftmen, as well as six beneficiaries of minibuses and three car beneficiaries.

Speaking at the maiden Town Hall Meeting/Empowerment ceremony at the Abak Township Stadium, the State Governor identified micro, small and medium scale entrepreneurs as the engine that powers sustainable economic growth and restated his administration's resolve to reach out to them both in the city and at remote locations across the rural communities to empower them and enhance their growth.

"We want to support small medium scale enterprises. These small businesses are the engine of the economy. These are the small traders, farmers, those people that have their handwork. Those are the people that help the economy, they employ two or three people and they provide food for their homes. We must support them. I know what you are doing and we will keep supporting you," Governor Eno stated.

Reaffirming his commitment to rural development, the Governor maintained that he would be satisfied to take governance to the rural communities and leave enduring legacies in their lives and environments.

This, he explained, was the reason he chose to embark on painstaking profiling of potential beneficiaries to avoid urban-based enlistment of portfolio traders and farmers, attesting to the utmost transparency and due diligence of the selection process and that the beneficiaries were real and verifiable, while also admonishing beneficiaries to make good use of the grant with the consciousness that it is a one-off opportunity.

"No more will we sit in Uyo and write names of people we do not know. We have profiled all these people. If you check the brochure or go to Akwa Ibom State Government website, you'll see all their names, their phone numbers and their addresses so you can go and verify whether they got the monies or not.

"We have visited their businesses; we have visited their farms and they are not portfolio business people, so we have decided to come to their Federal Constituency to disburse the money and we will do same to others. But one thing is, once we support you, your name is captured on the portal so you cannot get it again. It will be some other peoples turn. So use your own well.

"I want to be remembered as the Governor who brought governance to the rural areas. I want to be remembered as the governor who interacted with the rural communities so they too can smell the fragrance of government. They can have good schools, good roads, good hospitals. They can have water, they can have basic necessities of life."

The Governor commended the cooperation of the leadership of Abak Federal Constituency, especially for working collaboratively to produce a unified needs document, maintaining that the document carried the essence of the day's event.

The Speaker, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Elder Udeme Otong, leading stakeholders of Abak, Etim Ekpo and Ika Local Government Areas to make a presentation of their charter of needs, called for a motion which was moved by, and seconded by Hon. Mfon Idung and Rt. Hon Aniekan Umanah respectively, that Abak Federal Constituency will unanimously support Governor Umo Eno to continue in office beyond 2027 in appreciation of his goodness to the people of the area.

In their various goodwill messages, a chieftain of the APC and Provost of Federal College of Health Sciences, Jos, Prof. Nkereuwem Etukudo, former Legal Adviser of the PDP, Emmanuel Enoidem, SAN and former Attorney General of the State, Uwemedimo Nwoko, SAN, lauded the Governor's integrity in keeping to his promise to the electorate and assured him of continuous support of the people of Abak, Etim Ekpo and Ika.

Interacting with Government House Correspondents, some beneficiaries of the grant; Inemesit Abraham and Semfon Dickson, expressed heartfelt gratitude over the grant, describing it as an apolitical, well-targetted empowerment programme. They noted that God is currently governing the state and using Governor Umo Eno as a human vessel.

Media Unit
Government House, Uyo
9/3/25

The Nigerian government has announced new economic policies aimed at tackling inflation and boosting local industries.

BREAKING: Senator Natasha Reports Her Suspension, Case Against Senate President Godswill Akpabio To UN Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

At the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting, Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan said she is seeking justice and intervention from international democratic institutions over what she terms an “unlawful suspension” from the Nigerian senate.

She said: “I come with a heavy heart from Nigeria. But first, I will like to apologise to Hon. Kafilat Ogbara. I am not here to bring shame to our country, I am here to seek help for the women of Nigeria,” she told assembly.

“Five days ago, on the 6th of March 2025, I was suspended as a senator illegally because I submitted a petition of sexual harassment against the president of the Nigerian senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.

“I thought by submitting the petition, he would recuse himself and both of us would submit ourselves to the committee of ethics, privileges and public petitions for a fair and transparent investigation.

“But unfortunately, I was silenced, and I was suspended for six months among many other stringent conditions, such as taking away my security, taking away all the official vehicles and other items that were handed over to me as a senator.

“My salary would be cut off. I must not appear anywhere near the national assembly. And for six months, I am not to present myself as a senator locally in Nigeria and internationally. I am here illegally, and I have no other place to go but to come here”.

She said her suspension is not just about her, but about the exclusion of women in political leadership in Nigeria.

“This is a clear case of political victimization, punishment for speaking out against impunity, corruption and gender-based violence,” she added.

Credit: TheCable

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A match made in Abia

It was a sunny day in Umuahia, the capital city of Abia State, when Eme and Ike first met. Eme, a beautiful young woman with a bright smile, had attended a party with her friends. Ike, a handsome young man with a charming personality, had also been invited to the party.

As fate would have it, Eme and Ike bumped into each other while dancing. They exchanged apologies, and Ike couldn't help but notice how beautiful Eme looked. Eme, too, was struck by Ike's charming smile.

They started talking, and before long, they discovered they had a lot in common. Both were from Abia State, and they shared a love for afang soup and highlife music. Ike was impressed by Eme's intelligence and wit, while Eme was charmed by Ike's sense of humor and confidence.

As the night wore on, they found themselves lost in conversation. Ike asked Eme for her number, and to his delight, she agreed. They exchanged numbers, and Ike couldn't wait to call her the next day.

Their first date was a walk along the banks of the Imo River. They talked for hours, sharing stories and laughter. Ike was smitten, and Eme felt the same way.

As the days turned into weeks, their love continued to grow. They would take long drives through the countryside, visit local markets, and try out new restaurants. Ike loved Eme's cooking, and Eme loved Ike's singing.

One day, Ike took Eme to the same river where they had their first date. He got down on one knee, pulled out a small box, and asked Eme to marry him. Eme was overwhelmed with emotion, but she managed to say yes.

Their wedding was a beautiful celebration of their love, with friends and family from all over Abia State in attendance. They spent their honeymoon in a cozy little cottage in the hills, watching the sunset over the rolling hills.

Years later, Ike and Eme are still going strong. They have two beautiful children, and they continue to live in Abia State, surrounded by the people and places they love.

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The education of the girl child is a fundamental human right and a key factor in the overall development of societies. Yet, across the world, there are still barriers—cultural, economic, and structural—that prevent millions of girls from accessing quality education. In many regions, gender inequality continues to hinder girls from receiving the same opportunities as boys, perpetuating a cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and limited opportunity.

The Importance of Educating Girls

Educating girls is not only a matter of justice and equality but also an investment in the future. Studies consistently show that when girls are educated, they are more likely to invest in their families and communities. An educated girl is more likely to delay marriage, have fewer children, and contribute to the economy. Furthermore, girls who are educated are more likely to send their own children to school, creating a generational cycle of empowerment.

Impact on Communities and Societies

The benefits of educating girls extend beyond the individual. It has a profound impact on communities and societies as a whole. For instance, research indicates that when women are educated, they are more likely to participate in the workforce, engage in entrepreneurial activities, and make significant contributions to their economies. Additionally, educated women tend to promote better health and educational outcomes for their children. They are more likely to prioritize nutrition, healthcare, and education, leading to healthier and more prosperous future generations.

On a broader level, the education of the girl child plays a key role in advancing gender equality. When girls have access to education, they gain the skills and confidence to challenge discriminatory practices and assert their rights. This, in turn, can lead to social and political change, as women and girls become more active participants in decision-making processes.

Challenges to Education for Girls

Despite the clear benefits, many girls around the world face significant barriers to education. In many developing countries, poverty remains one of the biggest obstacles. Families who are struggling to make ends meet may prioritize sending boys to school over girls, as they see boys as the future breadwinners. Additionally, cultural norms and traditions often dictate that girls should stay at home and help with household chores or get married at an early age, rather than pursuing their education.

In some regions, violence and conflict further complicate access to education for girls. Schools may be destroyed in wars, and girls may face the threat of violence or kidnapping while traveling to and from school. In many societies, sexual harassment and gender-based violence in educational settings also discourage girls from continuing their education.

Global Efforts to Promote Education for Girls

In recognition of the importance of educating girls, various global initiatives have been launched. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4 aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all, with a particular focus on gender equality. Organizations such as Malala Fund, Girl Up, and Plan International work tirelessly to advocate for girls' education and to provide financial and logistical support to help girls access education.

Governments, NGOs, and local communities have made strides in improving girls’ access to education. However, there is still much work to be done. The challenges faced by girls in different regions of the world may vary, but the goal remains the same: to ensure that every girl, regardless of her background or circumstances, has the opportunity to fulfill her potential through education.

Conclusion

The education of the girl child is a cornerstone of social and economic development. Educating girls leads to better outcomes for individuals, families, and societies at large. While progress has been made, barriers still persist, and it is critical that efforts to promote girls’ education continue to grow and evolve. By addressing issues such as poverty, gender inequality, violence, and cultural norms, we can create a world where every girl has the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive. In empowering girls through education, we empower the world.